13 Ideas to Create a Beautiful Flower Garden
It’s spring so time to get out the garden gloves, get a little dirty, and make your garden come alive with flowers. Here are 13 ideas to help you create a beautiful flower garden.
You don’t have to have a green thumb to bring the beauty of a flower garden into your life. Fortunately, most spring and summer flowers need three things: water, good dirt, and a little sun or a lot of sun.
This time of year, depending on your planting zone, you may be shopping for flowers, prepping the flower beds, or planting flowers in your flower beds.
It never hurts to research flower garden ideas. That’s what I’ve done this past week. Of course, I’m going to share what I found with you.
Ideas to Create a Beautiful Flower Garden: 13 Resources
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I tried to include a variety of flower garden ideas. I also tried to strike a balance between areas of the country.
I found a wonderful article on flowers to use under trees. Unfortunately, the author clearly stated that she lived in Zone 3 which is the Canadian prairies. I didn’t think that post would be beneficial to most people.
Depending on your planting zone, your planting needs, and your goals for your flower garden, use these 13 resources like a garden encyclopedia. Find what applies to your situation and use the information you need. Save that particular resource.
And enjoy all the beautiful flower photography. That alone is inspiring.
Adding Interest to Your Flowerbeds
If you need some ideas for perking up your flowerbeds – like this spilled clay pot idea – then check out these 7 suggestions for adding interest to your flowerbeds from Ecstatic Happiness.
Shade-Loving Perennials
It’s so nice to have plants that last from year to year. Natalie Linda shares 12 shade-loving plants that will add beauty to the sheltered areas of your garden.
Low-Maintenance Flowers
Peonies are one of the most loved spring perennial flowers. Their delicate spring blooms do not last long, but the memory of their beauty certainly does. I wait with bated breath every spring to see if ours bloom. They are one of 11 lower-maintance flowers recommended by Family Handy Man. Peonies are one of one of the best low-maintenence flowers around.
Using Shade Plants
Ann of On Sutton Place is a great resource for garden ideas. Here she shares wonderful ideas for using shade plants in your beds and outdoor spaces.
How to Get Geraniums through the Summer
Geraniums are a classic spring flower that sometimes struggles in the summer. This article from This is My Garden shares 22 ideas for keeping geraniums growing.
Trellis Gardening
When you have limited growing space, going vertical is a great option. Here are 22 ideas from Country Living for using trellis to grow beautiful flowers.
Best Smelling Flowers
Not only is it nice to have a lovely garden to look at. Having a sweet-smelling one is also a way to enjoy a beautiful flower garden. Check out this list of the 10 best-smelling flowers for the garden from Jenny of Sunny Home Creations, which includes pink hyacinths.
Helpful Gardening Tools
Gardeners love tool hacks as much as any DIYer or home decor enthusiast. These ideas from Home Hacks will save you time and money as your make your garden grow.
Keep Your Hydrangeas Looking Gorgeous
Who doesn’t love hydrangeas? We were lucky enough to have two hydrangeas in our front and back yards when we moved into our present home. What a housewarming gift! Hydrangeas do need some extra care to bloom at their best. from year to year. Jenny of Sunny Home Creations how to keep your hydrangeas look their best.
Seasonal Gardening
A flower garden that is constantly blooming garden from spring right to the crispness of autumn is a dream for most gardeners. Martin of Gardening Step-by-Step shows you how to make it happen. The beautiful photography is a bonus.
Beautiful Front Yard Flower Beds
Digs Digs shares 44 Beautiful Front Yard Flower Beds from timeless green lawns to potted gardens. Even if there’s little space, you can still squeeze a small flower bed in, and the bed itself can be styled in multiple ways, with lots of blooms, shrubs and trees to give your front yard a desired look and boost its curb appeal.
Raised Flower Beds
In some case, raised flower beds are the perfect solution: They make gardening easier by bringing plants up to a more comfortable working height. They also create visual interest and help separate different areas of your outdoor space. Here are some beautiful examples from Food Prep Guide.
Cut Flower Garden
If you love bringing the beauty of the outdoors inside, then a cut flower garden might just be what you need! Mower’s Lab has gathered 25 easy and delightful ideas to help you create a colorful and fragrant space.
Great Gardening Books
Here is a collection of some awesome garden books. I searched for books that I would love to have. I hope you’ll like these selections.
- Peonies by Home and Garden. A beautiful book that I have.
- Ranunuclus by Home and Garden. I also have this one.
- I loved this first book, Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms, from Erin Benzakein, the force behind Floret Farm. It’s all about growing a cutting garden.
- The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening by Monty Don
- Perennial Combinations: Stunning Combinations That Make Your Garden Look Fantastic Right from the Start
- Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
- Hydrangeas: Beautiful Varieties for Home and Garden
I hope that you enjoyed these spring gardening ideas for curb appeal, front entries, and indoor plants. Here is another extensive resource you will want to peruse: 13 Beautiful Spring Plants and Planters and How to Make a Spring Flower Basket Arrangement.
Be sure to PIN to keep these ideas close by as you begin planning and planting your spring and summer gardens.. Check out my Pinterest Board, Flowers and Gardening.
In between writing posts, listening to podcasts, reading, doing various blogging tasks, walking Nola, and playing tennis, I’ll be browsing away.
